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How black holes grow

Evidence indicates they eat binary star partners. By University of Utah, Salt Lake City — Published: April 3, 2012

Artist’s conception of a supermassive black hole (lower left) with its tremendous gravity capturing one star (bluish, center) from a pair of binary stars, while hurling the second star (yellowish, upper right) away at a hypervelocity of more than 1 million mph (1.6 million km/h). The grayish blobs are other stars captured in a cluster near the black hole. They appear distorted because the black hole’s gravity curves spacetime and thus bends the starlight.

Credit: Ben Bromley (University of Utah)

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